would maybe, assume delegate windy ly and murase you may want a resolution to go a little bit deeper into what has been suggested, okay? >> roll call? >> thank you. >> i just wanted to say this and i just appreciate this effort but i am not going to try to add language. but what i want to point out is that this does not make us, i mean in the resolve, there is no specific reference to the superintendent's initiative. so and we discussed that basically what the staff is going to do, the federal office staff is what they do any way. so i just want to for the record is to kind of make sure that the communication with the sites, from the central office, will not only say here is things available to you, but it will make reference to the superintendent's initiative. it will sort of communicate to the sites that this is a priority for us and it is always a priority. but in particular, this year it is a area of emphasis and so, i just want to, you know, i am kind of presume that is happening, can you reassure us that it will. >> yes, i can. >> okay, thank you, i am fine with that. >> is the

? >> commissioner murase? >> commissioner? you make sure that this is on some future agenda. >> yes. >> i will. >> okay. let's go on to the next report which is the report on augmented curriculum and program committees commissioner fewer. >> we had an update on the graduation requirements similar to what we discussed at the select committee meeting. looking at who is on track to graduating and who is not on track to graduate and also we looked at some special education and disproportionalty of african americans in special education and the education disability category of emotional disturbance. and it was, you know, pretty depressing stuff. we had some very interesting data. we asked for more data on it. i think that it is definitely an issue that we must tackle this year and make some improvement or we will never, ever be able to close our racial achievement gap. so this is imperative and dr. blonco was prompt in sending us information that we requested in that meeting and that is about our non-public school placement who with that population looks like and for what disability that we say tha

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